New research presented at the Congress on Obesity reveals significant differences in body composition among people with similar BMIs, showing higher fat in central regions and reduced muscle mass in ...

We also calculated the relative risk of waist circumference and BMI for obesity-related cancers in men and women, taking into account the effects of age, smoking habits, education level, income, ...

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...

However, new research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) and published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that waist ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and ...

Objective and methodology With the objective of assessing the nutritional status of school children, an anthropometric survey of Delhi school children (N=711) aged 6–14 years (boys=398 ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Body mass index (BMI) was almost ...